Ronda Hauben: Reuters article about Congress investigating ICANN]

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Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 18:55:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: ronda@umcc.ais.org (Ronda Hauben)
Subject: Reuters article about Congress investigating ICANN

>From panix.com!ronda Thu Jun 24 18:49:27 1999
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 18:49:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ronda Hauben <ronda@panix.com>
To: netizens@columbia.edu
Subject: Reuters Article about Investigation of ICANN by U.S. Congress

There's an interesting article in the San Jose Mercury today
about the U.S. House of Representatives beginning an investigation
of ICANN.

 >[SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News, AUTHOR: Reuters]
 >(http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/083148.htm)

                                                                         
>   Silicon Valley Breaking News 
>   Mercury Center Breaking News 
>?   Posted at 9:49 a.m. PDT Tuesday, June 22, 1999
   
>Lawmaker blasts Clinton Internet address reform

>   WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Clinton administration's laborious efforts
>   to privatize the Internet's addressing system could be further slowed
>   as the House Commerce Committee Tuesday issued a blistering critique
>   and opened an investigation into the program.
   
>   Committee Chairman Thomas Bliley said he was ``greatly concerned''
>   that the nonprofit corporation chosen to run the system by the
>   administration had exceeded its authority by deciding to impose a $1
>   fee on every Internet Web site address.
   
>   In letters to Secretary of Commerce William Daley and the head of the
>   nonprofit, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
>   (ICANN), the Virginia Republican said the planned fee and other
>   decisions went beyond what the Clinton administration had announced
>   last year.
   
>   ``Rather than promote the Internet's evolution, your organization's
>   policies actually may jeopardize the continued stability of the
>   underlying systems that permit millions of people to use, enjoy and
>   transact business on the Internet,'' Bliley said in the letter to
>   Esther Dyson, interim chairwoman of the nonprofit corporation.
   

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